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Is it possible to have different development “paths” from a given point in Mercurial, without having to clone my project? I currently have 2-3 different implementations options for a project and I’d like to try them out. If I could just use one and at any point come back and start in another “path” without losing data from the older one that would be nice, but I am not even sure it is possible.
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This is exactly what branching is designed for:
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Branch
The easiest way to create a branch in Mercurial is to simply checkout an older version, and then commit again with something different from what you committed after it the first time. You won’t lose the old following commit, the new commit will simply branch out into a new line of development and the original commit(s) will remain on the previous line of development.